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Parte 1: Connections between the northern Zagros and Mesopotamia during the fifth millennium BCE: New insights from Tepe Namashir in western Iran, Morteza Zamani Dadaneh, Steve Renette, Amir Saed Mucheshi. Petrography-based discrimination of production areas within southern Mesopotamia: new data on the Ubaid pottery from Tell Zurghul (Dhi Qar, Iraq), Luca Volpi, Pamela Fragnoli. Nuragic warrior imagery: transcultural perspectives on Bronze Age weaponry, Valentina Matta, Helle Vankilde. Santa Maria in Belverde, Cetona (Siena, Tuscany): Anticipatory Elements of the Apennine Facies in the Middle Bronze Age Stratigraphic Sequence, Chiara De Marco, Maria Teresa Cuda, Lucia Sarti. Parte 2: Proceeding of the session held at the 24th Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists, Barcelona 2018. The Making of Adriatc and Ionian seascapes. Interpreting seaborne social and economic interactions during Late prehistory. Foreword, Maja Gori, Giulia Recchia. Trans-Adriatic contacts after the transition to farming, Staso Forenbaher. Connecting the dots in the Adriatic-Ionian area. Long-distance networks in the 3RD millennium B.C., Maja Gori, Andrea Di Renzoni, Elena Carletti. Northern Adriatic communities in the Broze Age: interregional exchange networks and regional social interaction, Elisabetta Borgna, Giulio Simeoni. The Role of Istria in the Bronze and Iron Age communications network of the Adriatic considered by the ceramic spectrum of the gradinas Monkodonja and Monbrodo, Anja Hellmuth Kramberger Modeling Mycenean trade: Apulia and Albania compared. Michael L. Galaty. Overland, riverine and maritime interconnections in ancient Epirus, Ole Christian Aslaksen.